President Obama's foreign policy is much like his domestic one: naïve and narcissistic. The results of his bravado are seldom good.

Obama has botched foreign relations. We are no better off anywhere in the world since he took office. The premise of his Middle East policy is that he is adored by the media and Democrats; therefore, the Muslim world will do whatever he suggests.

Now we have problems with not only Iraq but ISIS, ISIL (ISIS' evil twin), the IAEA and Iran. There are more "I's" in those names than in an Obama speech. What a bunch of ISILs. more >>

Desertion is a very old story in the history of armies and armed conflict. Soldiers deserted from the Continental Army, from the Union Army, from the American armies in World War I and World War II — yet those armies fought on, fought well, and prevailed. An army can survive desertion, so to hear that Bowe Bergdahl has been charged with desertion hardly represents an existential crisis for the military or its character. In fact, it is to the Army's credit that it has charged Bergdahl in the face of prevailing political winds.

Much more serious than Bergdahl's desertion is our commander-in-chief's decision to hand the enemy a victory to retrieve a likely deserter, compounded by a decision to celebrate this serious defeat at the White House, and then to clumsily attempt to cover their political tracks by trotting out Susan Rice to deceive the public about Bergdahl's service record.

This is dishonor, from the highest levels of American leadership. And that kind of dishonor is much more grave, much more difficult to absorb and overcome than any given soldier's decision to desert. Our culture — especially our military culture — is remarkably strong. more >>

Congress authorized the State Department to transfer $11.9 billion in cash payments to Iran by June 2015. Transferring any form of aid/comfort to Iran, a sworn enemy of the United States, is a treasonous act.

Treason against the United States is defined as 1) "consist[ing] only in levying war against them," or 2) "in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort."

Some argue this definition is only applicable only during wartime. Regardless of how one defines America "at war" sending cash to a sworn enemy that has publicly declared its intent to destroy America and to continue building nuclear weapons, clearly falls within the Constitutional definition of a treasonous act. more >>

A U.S. Air Force veteran has been charged with attempting to travel to Syria to join and aid terror group ISIS, federal authorities revealed on Tuesday.

"Born and raised in the United States, [Tairod Nathan Webster] Pugh allegedly turned his back on his country and attempted to travel to Syria in order to join a terrorist organization," U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a news release, according to Fox News.

Pugh, 47, is alleged to have attempted to provide material support and resources to a terrorist organization sometime last year, an indictment filed in U.S. District Court in New York said. Officials added that he also destroyed four thumb drives with files and photos that could have been used in a grand jury investigation. more >>

By constantly projecting Western standards on Islamic jihadist, CIA head John Brennan has come to epitomize the U.S. intelligence community's intellectual failures concerning the true sources of the jihad.

Last Friday, March 13, Brennan insisted that Islamic State (IS) members are not Islamic. Instead, "They are terrorists, they're criminals. Most—many—of them are psychopathic thugs, murderers who use a religious concept and masquerade and mask themselves in that religious construct."

Note his usage of terms familiar to Western people ("terrorists," "criminals," etc.). Islamic State jihadist may be all those things—including "psychopathic thugs"—from a Western paradigm, but the fact left out by Brennan is that, according to Islamic law and history, savage and psychopathic behavior is permissible, especially in the context of the jihad. more >>

President Obama has engaged in military actions around the world as much as any other president. Since receiving the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after entering office, he has proven himself as aggressive as the most hawkish Republican president in history. This comes as no surprise in hindsight; when Obama was first running for president, he indicated he would bomb Pakistan, which even most Republicans opposed.

By April 2012, The New York Times was calling Obama "warrior in chief," saying he "has turned out to be one of the most militarily aggressive American leaders in decades." Law professor Jonathan Turley, considered one of the top left-leaning constitutional experts in the country, told MSNBC that Obama is worse than Bush or Nixon at launching unilateral, unconstitutional wars. Jack Goldsmith, who led the Office of Legal Counsel for part of the George W. Bush administration, says Obama has expanded war powers beyond any previous president.

The New York Times listed Obama's military accomplishments as of April 2012, more >>